What is Raw Organic Cacao Powder (Chocolate Powder)?

All chocolate is made from Cacao Beans (also known as Cocoa Beans). Cacao is chocolate! All the antioxidant value, mineral benefits, neurotransmitter rejuvenating properties, and overall health-giving qualities of chocolate are found in raw Cacao Beans!

Chocolate powder is created by cold-pressing Cacao Beans into a cake separating the oil from the protein and fiber. The remaining dry 'cake-like' material is then cold-ground, fine-milled and sifted so that only the finest, most bio-available raw Cacao particles filter through into the finished product. The temperature is never allowed to exceed 120 degrees Fahrenheit and is usually 104 degrees F (most other cocoa powders are exposed to temperatures as high as 300 degrees Fahrenheit!). A high-accuracy thermometer monitors the process. This low temperature process keeps delicate vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants intact, allowing for maximum digestion and absorption.

Our Certified Organic Chocolate Powder is created from beautiful, clean, microbe-free Cacao Beans. Our Chocolate Powder is processed in a state-of-the-art facility in Ecuador. We package this outstanding product in the highest quality-amber glass bottle available on the market in order to protect the cacao powder from light.

No chemicals, no hexane, no solvents

No sugar, no dairy

Just one ingredient: raw, organic cacao powder.

How To Use Raw Cacao PowderAdd cacao powder to all your favorite smoothies, elixirs, teas, coffee mixes, protein drinks, desserts or anything else you can think of. Just one or two spoonfuls can transform any recipe into a healthy chocolate treat. It even goes great on top of fresh fruit! Delight your friends with the best food ever! Enhance your pleasure to the maximum...enjoy!

StorageRefrigeration or storage in a cool, dry place (out of direct sunlight) is recommended, yet not required. Sunfood Raw Organic Chocolate Powder is microbe-free and highly-stable.

The Amazing Story of Raw Cacao Powder- Who Ever Heard of Over 25,200 Antioxidants in a Single Spoonful of Chocolate?After spending nearly two grueling years on research and development, extensive international traveling and endless fine-tuning...and after dropping a small fortune on the most rigorous possible ORAC antioxidant laboratory analysis...we are now able to offer you the most antioxidant-rich, most PURE and ridiculously great-tasting 100% Raw Cacao Powder...

It's the FIRST and ONLY product of its kind EVER!

From the desk of David Wolfe:

Dear Fellow Chocolate Lover:

If you're like me — always looking to take your Chocolate experience to the next level of pure delight — then this may be the most important single message you will ever read.

That's because you're about to discover the most delicious, easy-to-use and mega-potent (955 ORAC units per gram!) form of Chocolate ever revealed. One that's meticulously been kept below 120 degrees Fahrenheit from the tree all the way to the bottle.

Let me make this clear — you've never been able to get 25,200 ORAC units of Antioxidant power in a spoonful of ANYTHING — but now you can get it all and more in one single serving of delicious Raw Organic Cacao Powder!

Isn't it awesome to be one of the pioneers — to be MILES ahead of the natural foods curve? I say this because while everyone else is singing the praise of dark chocolate — we're way, way beyond that.

But before I reveal the astonishing facts — let me quickly simplify the rating scale the USDA has developed, called ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity). Basically it's a high-tech way of measuring the ability of antioxidants to absorb cell damaging, wrinkle-causing, tissue-destructive free radicals.

Many companies use different ORAC units in their product descriptions, creating some confusion when one is trying to compare one ORAC score to another.

Here's an example to illustrate a common confusion: both dark cocoa powder and the goji berry (the goji berry is a superfood from China) are high on the ORAC scale. Roasted cocoa powder tops the list with a score of 26,000. The goji berry rates strongly, with a score commonly found on the internet of 25,300. But what is creating confusion amongst consumers is that the cocoa powder and the goji ORAC ratings are for 100 grams! That's much more than a typical serving. If you calculate the ORAC units per gram you quickly see that dark cocoa powder is at 260 and goji is 253.

Not bad, but that's nothing compared to the whopping 955 ORAC Units found in each gram of raw organic Cacao Powder!

This is a great validation of the superfood lifestyle we all get to enjoy.

Check the math — the raw version contains 367% more antioxidants than the very best cooked version. (On the same 100 gram scale as above, Raw Organic Cacao Powder would have over 95,500 ORAC units compared to the 26,000 in the roasted...)

Plus, we know this is 100% accurate because I personally sent our Raw Organic Cacao Powder to Brunswick Laboratories in Wareham, Massachusetts.

Brunswick is the pioneer and a world leader in research testing related to Antioxidants and oxidative stress — they're the best of the best. Their facility is where all the big players in the supplement industry get their products tested for antioxidant levels.

And, honestly, with as much work and fine tuning as we'd put into this product, I expected to see a nice difference for sure. But 367% higher in our Cacao Powder — that's more than anyone could ever have predicted!

But this is only the beginning. I've got an even more thrilling piece of info for you. Now here's what I want you to do...

...Take all of the great scientific things you are hearing about chocolate and multiply them by about seven times!

You can actually do that because pure dark chocolate (which, to most researchers, is the benchmark of healthy chocolate) contains about 132 ORAC units per gram.

Again, that's much higher than most foods. But it's still meager compared to the 955 units in our Raw Organic Cacao Powder. In fact, our Cacao Powder has about 723% more (or about 7 times more) antioxidants gram-per-gram than typical dark chocolate.

Here are just a few examples of what I mean:

Cornell University food scientists say that cocoa has nearly twice the antioxidants of red wine and up to three times those found in green tea. With Raw Cacao Powder, it would be 14 times more than Red Wine and 21 times more than Green Tea!

Italian researchers found eating 100 grams of dark chocolate each day for 15 days lowered blood pressure in the 15-person study. The University of L'Aquila team also found the body's ability to metabolize sugar — a problem for people with diabetes — was improved. Because the effect was believed to be due to Antioxidant levels, with Raw Cacao Powder we can likely multiply this effect.

Doctor Gabriel Cousens’ clinical research (which I have taken part in) has demonstrated that eating cacao and cacao products (chocolate powder) are safe and healthy and can actually help to improve some blood sugar disorders. Dr. Cousens wrote to me about his results with cacao. He also made the following statement…

Cacao polyphenols have been scientifically shown to:

Lower blood pressure

Lower vascular cell adhesion

Increase circulating Nitric Oxide

Decrease platelet aggregation

Decrease rates of death from cardiac mortality and all mortality in general

Improve insulin sensitivity

Decrease fasting insulin

Increase blood flow to the brain

Inhibit plasma lipid oxidation

Decrease chronic inflammation in the body and cardio-vascular system in general.”

Dutch researchers indicate that dark chocolate contains four times the amount of catechin antioxidants than black tea. With Raw Cacao Powder, it would be 28 times more than Black Tea and potentially 7 times the protection!

In trials, doctors at Harvard found that Antioxidant compounds called Flavonols in chocolate help the body to produce Nitric Oxide, a compound essential for proper heart function. (Nitric oxide is also believed by some bodybuilders to help increase muscularity). Again, with Raw Cacao Powder, this effect could easily be multiplied.

There are many more examples than I could ever list here!

You get the point. Just remember this figure of roughly 723% (or 7 times) when you read about the health benefits of dark chocolate — because that's how much MORE Antioxidant activity Raw Cacao Powder has.

In Raw Cacao Powder, much of the oil is removed, while nearly all of the active nutrients remain

Did you know the amino acid Tryptophan is found naturally in cacao. Tryptophan enhances relaxation and promotes better sleep? Now you'll get at least 33% more tryptophan when you use Raw Cacao Powder!

Researchers have discovered that phenylethylamine (PEA) has a positive effect in enhancing feelings of falling in LOVE! And Chocolate has been proven to be an excellent source of PEA. Now you can love at least 33% more with Raw Cacao Powder!

Cacao is the richest food source of magnesium of any common food. Magnesium is the number one mineral that assists and supports healthy heart functioning. Now you get at least 33% more magnesium gram-per-gram with Raw Cacao Powder!

Raw Cacao Powder has at least 33% more Arginine, the aphrodisiac-like amino acid believed by body builders to build muscle and aid in recovery.

Here are just a few ideas for using your Raw Cacao Powder

Add it to your favorite smoothies-elixir (one heaping tablespoon will do) and watch them instantly become Raw Chocolate masterpieces!

You can blend it with Virgin Coconut Oil and Agave — for instant Raw Chocolate Syrup! (Then put this on top of raw ice cream or fresh fruit —AMAZING!)

You can blend it in a food processor with raw nut butters and agave nectar, for the most delicious dessert you've ever had.

You can make any cookie, brownie or pie INSTANTLY more chocolaty and delicious — just add a level tablespoon or more to taste.

You can blend it with almond milk or hemp milk. This gives you a creamy dark chocolate milk that's LOADED with antioxidant power and tastes out of this world!

Blend some cacao powder directly into your favorite herbal tea and make your tea into an alchemical warm chocolate beverage!

Special Note...It takes approximately 2-1/2 to 3 pounds of raw cacao nibs/beans to create one pound of raw Cacao Butter.